wrestle with something

Examples of wrestle

wrestle
Newly elected men wrestled with consciences or argued with colleagues and immediately declined or subsequently resigned the proferred position.
Scholars have posited numerous definitions of spirituality and wrestled with the notion of spiritual pain and suffering.
These are issues that we and all of our colleagues wrestle with on a daily basis.
But while the victim hesitated, he made an effort to grab the keys from her and eventually wrestled them from her grasp.
In such a hostile atmosphere, the protagonist wrestles with the question of an alternative maleness and finds himself attracted to men rather than women.
The evangelists would have to wrestle constantly with the contradictions of commerce.
Liberalism is austere, people respond to tribal passions, every nation wrestles with its demonic urges.
Here, some of the classic works wrestle with how to extract dateable historical facts from oral performance.
The counter-position to this one is, roughly, that wrestling makes everything worse.
Quite apart from external attempts to influence them, corporate laboratories have always wrestled with problems of internal financial accountability.
The music wrestles back and forth between the deep attacks and frenzied tunes.
Thoughtful researchers have long recognized the inadequacies of the paradigm and have struggled to wrestle in meaningful ways with their phenomena within its considerable constraints.
This extended metaphor sketches out in broad strokes the nature of the fear of triviality with which the commentator has to wrestle.
The value-driven partisan instability we find implies that some part of the electorate wrestles with the decisions that confront them in politics.
Other authors wrestled with ' the throes of an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119).
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